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| Manage Prescriptions Quickly,
Easily and Safely |
The tasks associated with writing and renewing
prescriptions cause physicians to sacrifice
time, money, and safety. Here are the facts:
Learn more about Medicare’s Practical Guide to the e prescription Incentive program Published November 2008 |
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| To get started with E Prescription follow these simple steps.
Download the applications below, fill in your information by typing in the spaces available, then fax them back to the number found on the application. |
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| Time |
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The average physician writes 30
prescriptions a day and handles
another 30 refill equests. |
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Indecipherable or unclear prescriptions
result in more than 150 million calls
from pharmacists to physicians,
asking for clarification. |
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Communications between pharmacies
and physician offices account for
an estimated 20% of the workload
of physician-office staff. |
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Expense |
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The typical pharmacy call-back costs
physician practices $5–$7 to pull and
review the chart and return the call. |
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| Safety |
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Due largely to legibility problems,
prescription orders must be confirmed
at the pharmacy level in almost
40 percent of cases. |
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Medication errors cause 1.5 million
preventable injuries and death each year. |
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These are just a few of the many reasons
to implement online prescribing using the
RelayHealth secure eScript®‚ service.
The evidence is clear.
Studies show that
among physicians who e-prescribe: |
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More than 80% say that it improves
delivery of care |
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Two-thirds say it helps improve their
personal efficiency |
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45% immediately increase compliance
with formulary guidelines |
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In the Hospital setting, e-prescribing
can reduce errors by 50% or more. |
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| eScript Benefits |
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Request or renew with
online convenience |
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Transmit prescriptions or renewal
authorizations to virtually any
pharmacy instantly |
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Approve renewal requests
with one-click |
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Reduce staff time spent on
phone calls and faxes to and
from the pharmacy |
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Enhance patient care by
reducing potential errors due
to misread prescriptions and
similar medication names |
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Improve patient safety through
automatic interaction checking
against Personal Health Record and
improved legibility of prescriptions |
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Display formulary information
to reduce costs |
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Educate patients with
easy-to-understand online
medication information |
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eScript —True Electronic Prescribing |
eScript is one of the healthcare industry’s
leading e-prescribing solutions. It enables
your practice to manage prescriptions
electronically using computer-to-computer
transmission between your office and the
pharmacy thus substantially reducing phone
calls and faxes to your office. That’s true
electronic prescribing. eScript manages
both new prescriptions and renewals.
It is also the only e-prescribing solution
that involves the patient in the prescribing
process for greater patient satisfaction. |
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| Prescriptions |
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Writing prescriptions is easy, safe, and
secure. RelayHealth automatically screens
each pre-scription for possible interactions
with recorded patient allergies or previously
prescribed medications.
With eScript, providers can receive their
renewals online from patients and local and
retail pharmacies. They can approve (or deny)
prescription renewals with a single click. Prescriptions
route immediately to the pharmacy
of choice—eScript can transmit to virtually any
pharmacy in the U.S.—with no need for the
doctor’s office to ever lift the phone, or a pen.
Alternately, healthcare providers can send the
prescription securely and electronically to the patient, who then forwards the prescription to
the pharmacy. In either case, the practice can
realize significant time savings. And for busy
practices with staff struggling to manage the
many administrative burdens of healthcare
today, saving time means saving money.
RelayHealth prescriptions are transmitted
through the SureScripts Electronic
Prescribing Network™—90% of U.S. retail
and independent community pharmacies
participate in the electronic network. |
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| Patients Benefit as Well |
With eScript, patients enjoy greater convenience.
They quickly receive prescriptions
electronically, and can easily forward them to
the pharmacy of their choice—or simply go
pick them up if the prescriber transmits their
RelayHealth prescription directly to the pharmacy.
And patients benefit from increased
awareness of their formulary—which may
promote compliance and even a reduction
of costs because RelayHealth presents costeffective
generic alternatives to the prescriber.
Patients benefit most of all from reduced
medical errors and improved quality of
care that eScript delivers. |
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| A Smarter Way to Prescribe |
User-friendly “Favorites” lists and intuitive
searches make it easy to prescribe new medications
using eScript. And eScript “learns” as
you go—saving typing time on subsequent
prescriptions. The more you use it, the
smarter eScript gets about your prescribing
preferences and practices. When you
prescribe using eScript the information is
automatically stored in the Personal Health
Record. With features like these, eScript
helps reduce medication errors and increase
patient and formulary compliance.
RelayHealth eScript works as a stand-alone
electronic prescribing service, or as an
integrated component of the premier
RelayHealth secure messaging platform. |
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| Workflow Features Further Enhance
Practice Productivity |
Integrated role-based permissions enable
pre-scribers to authorize medical staff to
send prescriptions on their behalf. And with
RelayHealth rule-based message routing,
incoming renewal requests from patients can
be automatically directed to the responsible
staff member (with physician oversight and
permission, of course)—no online physician
involvement required. What’s more, All
requests appear in one area of eScript and
can be reviewed in one queue for easy
viewing and sorting.
RelayHealth operates as a neutral partner in
an open network to support quality care
improvements and reduce administrative
costs for hospitals, pharmacies, providers,
payors and patients. By offering connectivity
and integrated solutions to participants
across the spectrum of healthcare delivery,
RelayHealth provides Care Fully Connected™. |
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